Example sentences of "[prep] wait for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I got ta wait for him , I might as well wait for you too , might n't I ? ’ |
| 2 | Yes , but you 've got ta wait for your visas and all that lot , remember , like you said . |
| 3 | and all she can think of to say is ( and here he mimicked a heavy filmstar accent which actually was nothing like the actress in the film at all , because the woman in the film is an ordinary , decent , hardworking woman ) , ‘ Oh dahlink , I 'ave missed you so much , ’ and then the first thing she does after waiting for him to come home for seven fucking years is to leave the fucking gas on while she 's making his coffee , and then of course she 's so tense that she just ca n't wait for a fag , she lights up , there you go ; bang . |
| 4 | After five years of waiting for her neighbour to complete a sentence , the queen of coffee beans finally decided to try out another date — an Italian whose uniqueness lay in his not being able to speak a word of his native language . |
| 5 | It sounded like a question , but he had no intention of waiting for her answer , as he dropped down on the bed beside her , lacing his fingers through her lustrous brunette tresses , controlling the movement of her head so she could not escape the seductive power of his mouth as he took her unwilling lips with practised artistry . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , tired of waiting for its money , American Express cancelled his card . |
| 7 | I 'm standing on one hip , propped up like a nonchalant horse on a summer 's day , making heavy work of waiting for him . |
| 8 | After that it 's a question of waiting for them to contact you again . |
| 9 | She heard the distant sound of the tractor starting up , which meant that Fernand had no intention of waiting for her . |
| 10 | In the privacy of her bedroom she grimaced in the direction of the voice and made her way downstairs , taking her time , not caring if he went grey in the process of waiting for her . |
| 11 | It was simply a matter of waiting for their visas to be approved . |
| 12 | On mentioning that I was not happy to pay for a second hour of parking , for the privilege of waiting for their delayed train , I was told ‘ That 's no problem . |
| 13 | Have we any answer to the jibe , ‘ If it is the right thing to do , you would be doing it now instead of waiting for everyone else' ? ’ |
| 14 | We went down into the station shelter and I experienced the familiar claustrophobic sensation of waiting for something to happen . |
| 15 | Fifteen lonely years of waiting for something to think , of waiting to think something , of thinking of waiting , of thinking I 'll make myself a cheese sandwich , of waiting . |
| 16 | I feel now , erm just from talking to people , that there 's very much a feeling of er a torpor , erm a kind of hiatus of waiting for something to happen , waiting to be moved out , looking forward to that . |
| 17 | They got tired of waiting for you ! ’ |
| 18 | There was then the suspense of waiting for it to come in , and my fear that we might not be on the right platform or that the Great Western had forgotten about it . |
| 19 | Even the running slow can be a serious problem because instead of waiting for it to finish a task you start pressing more keys — which gives it even more to do ! |
| 20 | Not that Lori had said anything incriminating , but the sheer tension of waiting for it started her head thumping . |
| 21 | Like you know , you 're sort of waiting for it , and then there 's this now would you like , and I thought , I have n't given my answer yet , and then erm , and just leave my name , cos I think |
| 22 | It 's just a matter of waiting for your references to be checked out , or whatever the complication is , so all you 'd do , is stay , I mean , do n't sit at home . |
| 23 | She knew she 'd be happier with a specific task to take her mind off things rather than just sitting about waiting for whatever might happen next , even if it was only the passing of time . |
| 24 | Belinda wanted to tell him not to worry about waiting for her if he wanted to return to Labour and Delivery , but somehow the words would n't come . |
| 25 | No nonsense about waiting for your one and only soul-mate to show up . |
| 26 | It was like waiting for something important to happen which has got to happen before life can go on . |
| 27 | In the meantime , the banks which lent the money to the dealers to enable them to pay the vast prices of the boom period are being very patient in waiting for their money , as it was partly their fault that a bubble economy was created in Japan . |
| 28 | But it had not eluded Jack Stone , and he had thought that Stone was as prepared to pay his time in prison , in order know return to that normality , as Chrissie was to pay her time in waiting for him . |
| 29 | I have to point out that she is wasting her life caught up in waiting for her thoughts and ideas to come true in reality . |
| 30 | Two-Dogs-Dying had shrugged , and gone back to waiting for his monthly security cheques . |